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On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Kerrigan to serve as a Judge of the United States Tax Court, to the seat vacated by Judge Harry A. Haines, whose term had expired. Her nomination received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Finance on November 17, 2011, and was reported favorably on December 17, 2011.
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An Act of 1691 created a Court of Common Pleas in each of New York's counties, which at the time numbered 12. [1] Judges and clerks were appointed by the governor of New York and held office at his pleasure or during good behavior. The court's jurisdiction extended to all actions in which the amount in controversy exceeded five English pounds ...
The Judges' Rules are a set of guidelines about police and questioning and the acceptability of the resulting statements and confessions as evidence in court. Originally prepared for police in England, the Rules and their successor documents have become a part of legal procedure not just in Britain but in places as far afield as Jamaica, Zambia and Western Samoa where English law is followed.
Judge Kerrigan may refer to: Kathleen Kerrigan (judge) (born 1964), judge of the United States Tax Court Frank Henry Kerrigan (1868–1935), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
New York's rules of civil procedure allow for interlocutory appeals of right from nearly every order and decision of the trial court, [6] meaning that most may be appealed to the appropriate appellate department while the case is still pending in the trial court.[[Map of the four departments of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.